IBut most importantly, it is an eloquent, touching exploration of what family really means. James was working as a tenor sax sideman with jazz legend Jimmy Scott when he penned this book, which was written in hotel rooms, vans, airports, libraries and on buses. Previously he served for eight years as a journalist.
He was a feature writer in the Style Section at The Washington Post when, at age 30, he quit the Post, moved to New to play jazz, and subsequently starved. He set about interviewing Ruth McBride Jordan and searching out her mysterious past, a process that took 14 years and resulted in a book that is regarded as a landmark work. Loved each and every part of this book.
I will definitely recommend this book to non fiction, autobiography lovers. Your Rating:. Kill Em And Leave A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence on American popular music of any artist. Miracle At St. By lawyeraau This book is, indeed, a tribute to the author's mother. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan?
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A self-declared light-skinned woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in orchestrated chaos with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Mommy, a fiercely protective woman with dark eyes full of pep and fire, herded her brood to Manhattans free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best and mainly Jewish schools, demanded good grades and commanded respect.
As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mothers footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.
God is the color of water, Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that lifes blessings and lifes values transcend race. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
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James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother' Published January 14th by Riverhead Books first published January 23rd Bernadette I think the author was proud of his mother, and felt full-filled to learn of his true heritage and what his mother survived and sacrificed for her…more I think the author was proud of his mother, and felt full-filled to learn of his true heritage and what his mother survived and sacrificed for her family.
Shelves: biography, new-york-city, racism, jewish, family-relationships, favorites, non-fiction, memoir, new-jersey, virginia. Such a gem to me. McBride is a black journalist, novelist, and jazz musician who recognizes what a wonder his mother Ruth was when she raised him and 11 siblings and gets her to open up about her secretive past. The book is lyrical and tender, tough and heartbreaking, and suffused with tales of courage balanced with humor.
McBride alternates skillfully between Ruth talking about her early history and his own perspective from the inside of the family she nurtured in Brooklyn and Queens in the tur I read so many books, that very few actually stick with me, even 8 years after the fact. I cannot recommend this book enough. McBride writes from two different points of view: himself, and his mother. He parallels his growing up in poverty to his mother's story of moving to Harlem, before the civil rights movement.
It is amazing. I had the opportunity to meet the author at a writer's conference right after we read this for bookclub, and he is a gentle soul who has the most respect for his mother Some books grab me right away just as some do not. This one grabbed me right away. This book was a tribute to the Author's mother who raised him and his 11 siblings.
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